Thinking About 2015

Once a quarter my partners (Seth, Ryan, Jason) and I spend 48 hours together. Unlike a typical offsite that ten zillion organizations have, we tend to spend less time on

June 3, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

I Encourage Entrepreneurs To Ignore The Word "Bubble"

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.” – Macbeth Every time I hear the word “bubble” I think of that quote from Macbeth. I also think of Tulip

April 3, 2011 · 4 min · Brad Feld

Time For A New Phone System For Foundry Group

We’ve decided to implement a new phone system in our office. When I posted about our search for our video conferencing system, we got a ton a great feedback so

April 1, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Does Moore's Law Suddenly Matter Less?

A post in the New York Times this morning asserted that Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law. It’s a short post, but the money quote is from Ed Lazowska at the

March 8, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Signal vs. Noise

At the end of each day, I encourage you to reflect on whether you spent your day on “signal” or “noise.” Let me explain. Recently, I wrote a post titled

February 27, 2011 · 5 min · Brad Feld

My Increasing Love Affair With Google Apps

At Foundry Group, we have now completely switched to Google Apps. This started in August when I decided to Try Gmail For A Week. Five months later I am ready

February 18, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Wave of iPad Purchasing Has Just Begun

It’s fascinating to me when a new product aggressively shifts from early adopters to the mainstream. It should be no surprise that the day the iPad came out a bunch

January 22, 2011 · 3 min · Brad Feld

I Love Starting The Year Off With CES

After a two-fer of deeply annoying arrogance demonstrated by two different VCs on the first business day of 2011 that I’m still pondering (a mix of conflict avoidance behavior and

January 4, 2011 · 2 min · Brad Feld

I'm Creating A Platform For Platforms Of Platforms

I nominate “platform” for overused tech word of 2010.  Yeah, I whined about this a few months ago in my post Your Platform Is Not In My Space. I hear

December 23, 2010 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Just Make It Faster

As a user, how often have you thought “I wish this web service was faster.”  As a CEO, how often have you said “just make it faster.”  Or, more simply,

December 19, 2010 · 5 min · Brad Feld